State Department Whistleblower, a Career Foreign Service Officer, Seeks Congressional Protection After State Threatens Her Kids

Bryan Preston

The State Department whistleblower is Aurelia Fedenisn. She worked in the department’s inspector general’s office until her retirement in December 2012. According to USA Today, she has sought protection as an official whistleblower after the State Department directly threatened her, once at her home. It threatened her with criminal charges when she turned over documents to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) showing evidence that the department had watered down her report, in which she alleged that the department at the highest levels had scuttled eight investigations into a range of criminal wrongdoing.

Dallas lawyer Damon Mathias, who represents Fedenisn, said Fedenisn hired him after two diplomatic security agents spoke in a threatening manner to her teenage children at her home in a Virginia suburb of Washington. The agents arrived at the home to talk to Fedenisn about documents Fedenisn had given to Cruz and told the teens that they demanded to speak to their mom immediately, Mathias said.

Mathias says Fedenisn’s claim is that agents from State’s Diplomatic Security and other divisions engaged in very questionable and possibly criminal conduct; the Inspector General has been hampered in performing its oversight role; “and the findings they wanted to put in the report end up being left out,” Mathias said. “So you have a coverup of the coverup.”

When Fedenisn and her lawyers met with lawyers for the Office of the Inspector General, the government lawyers demanded she hand over the documents or they would refer the matter to the Department of Justice and Fedenisn would face criminal prosecution, Mathias said.

“They made it clear that they would go after her criminally,” he said.

“We refused to turn over the documents” and Fedenisn is now seeking whistle-blower protection, he said.

If this online bio is accurate, Aurelia Fedensin is a 23-year State Department officer who also served in the US military reserves as an intelligence officer. That’s not the typical profile of a crank or someone who just makes things up. The allegations Fedenisn’s IG investigation uncovered include the accusation that Obama bundler turned US ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman sought the services of prostitutes routinely, including underage girls. Gutman denies, and State denies any cover-up, neither of which are dispositive of the charges. State’s new spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, worked on the Obama campaign and has a history of saying things that are provably false. She comes to the job with no prior experience in the foreign service at all.

Fedensin’s investigations also include accusations that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security detail used prostitutes when they traveled with Clinton on her million mile march around the world. They also include allegations that State Department officials engaged in an underground drug ring in Baghdad, Iraq. The overarching accusation within all of this is that the State Department at the highest levels scuttled all eight investigations. Specifically, that career officer Patrick Kennedy and Clinton loyalist Cheryl Mills engineered the death of those investigations.

The State Department took Fedensin’s whistleblowing extremely seriously. CBS, which originally broke the story without naming Fedensin, reports that Two hours after CBS News made inquiries to the State Department about these charges, investigators from the State Departments Inspector General showed up at [Fedenisn's] door. That’s apparently when they threatened her kids.

With all of this swirling around, there’s a decent argument to be made that the State Department’s two scandals — this one plus Benghazi, which has a body count and includes the then Secretary of State blaming a terrorist attack on a movie — make it the top overall scandal going. It has four dead Americans and now at least three threatened Americans, and an inspector general who is now seeking what amounts to asylum in the care of Congress against the executive branch that allegedly threatened her.

It’s hard to say where all of this goes. The US State Department, Justice Department, Treasury Department, National Security Agency and military are all caught up in serious scandals, any of which would dominate headlines if not for the presence and interference from all the other scandals. It looks like our government is in the beginning stages of a collapse.

If I had to pick one to trust, it would be him. He isn’t fearful and he is honest and what’s his name said Cruz was one of the smartest law students. Actually, I think he’s the only one I trust at this time.

Thugs and bullies don't operate well in the daylight. Also, smart of her to turn the documents over to Sen. Cruz who will not be intimidated. The heat is on high and the whole cover-up is ready to boil.

I’m sorry, my eyes are tired.....is there a link in your article that corroborates a threat to her kids? The USA Today and Human Events article just seem to repeat what we’ve read and seen about the State Dept showing up on her door.

Thanks in advance.

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posted on 06/12/2013 8:15:49 PM PDT
by prairiebreeze
(Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)

DS is comprised of some of the biggest pu**ies in the world. There more concerned with getting overseas assignments, living on the taxpayer dime getting drunk, than with actual law enforcement/security issues.

It has four dead Americans and now at least three threatened Americans, and an inspector general who is now seeking what amounts to asylum in the care of Congress against the executive branch that allegedly threatened her.

This is some serious business. I'm glad that Ted Cruz is the one whose help Ms Fedenisn sought.

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posted on 06/12/2013 8:24:22 PM PDT
by lonevoice
(Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)

Consider that both parties are involved at all levels in all scandals to some degree. No one can seriously believe there are any secrets in DC. Republican staffers are ALSO tasked with implementation et all. THEY KNOW.

Since GOP know dem activities and do nothing/have DONE NOTHING, down they go as accomplices.

The NSA only collects the data...it takes the DOJ to secure judiciary approval to MINE the data. Holder’s DOJ is behind spying on Obama’s political opponents and passing info to WH. Not sure how that would touch the GOP. I do see how Benghazi will touch the GOPe...like McCain, ET, al though.

My guess is the financial collapse in 2007/2008 was orchestrated by the elites in both parties.....just a wild guess...new world order crap. All we need now is the lizard men and I am headed to join Alex Jones cult...lol

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posted on 06/12/2013 8:26:29 PM PDT
by penelopesire
(TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)

Dallas lawyer Damon Mathias, who represents Fedenisn, said Fedenisn hired him after two diplomatic security agents spoke in a threatening manner to her teenage children at her home in a Virginia suburb of Washington. The agents arrived at the home to talk to Fedenisn about documents Fedenisn had given to Cruz and told the teens that they demanded to speak to their mom immediately, Mathias said.

I don’t care if Glenn shows up with stone tablets from behind a burning bush. It will not wake up anyone that isn’t already aware.

If Zero confessed on national TV to a laundry list of crimes the libs and their butt licking pundits in the media would praise him for his bravery. And claim it was just more proof of what a great man he is.

I haven’t listened to Beck in awhile. Is this still about the Saudi student from the Boston bombings, the one with the 3-B visa classification? Last I remember about that, Glenn said that Janet Napolitano would be impeached, at the very least, when he exposed the documentation he had. He said if the people involved didn’t come clean, he would expose them in a few days time and it could cause the collapse of the government. That was a couple months ago though, and he completely dropped it and acted like he never said any of it.

Beck has proven himself time and again to be the boy who cried wolf.

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posted on 06/12/2013 8:34:43 PM PDT
by lonevoice
(Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)

obama is not qualified to be president. Neither was LBJ. Vote fraud got him in the senate. Without that he would never have been selected as JFK’s veep. My point is this has been going on for a long time. But I never thought I’d see an administration as corrupt as this one. And there is “no controlling legal authority” to stop it.

If Ms. Fedenisn is smart , she will move to the Senate Floor with 24 hour coverage until this mess is fixed so that she and her family are protected.Literally have cameras on her and family with real time streaming to multiple offsite locations 24 hours a day. Might be time for a real time filibuster with the Senate in session with her as a guest.. Then if the wons suicide bombers do their things we at least are rid of some democrats.

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posted on 06/12/2013 8:36:54 PM PDT
by contrarian
(May God protect her and keep her family in his hands)

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